"You two go change while I look for the spell" Phoebe said
Prue and Piper headed downstairs while Phoebe looked through the BOS. Leo went after Piper, and Victor had gone down to the basement to change himself. Leaving Cole and Phoebe alone.
"So this is your BOS?"
"Yep." Phoebe replied as she looked for the spell to return them back to the past.
Cole came behind her and wrapped his arms around her. "Phoebe are you ok?"
Leaning back into Cole's embrace, "I will be Cole. Thanx." She turned slightly and kissed him. "Ok so I have to find this spell."
"Phoebe what was it about this time that you figured it out?"
"Cole I can't get into it right now. Just now that it was a very dark time for us, but in the end we eventually made it through." Phoebe was still flicking the pages as Cole held her. Suddenly the book started to do it flippy thing, causing Cole to step back. While Phoebe turned and chuckled at him lightly.
"Oh the big bad Belthazor, afraid of a book that turns it's own pages."
"Yeah haha."
"Don't worry Cole. It's just Grams. Sometimes she helps us out with the book."
"Oh."
It was then that Prue and Piper entered the attic.
"You find it Phoebe?"
"Got it. Are you two ready?"
"As we'll ever be." Piper said.
"Ok then here we go again."
Piper went over to Leo and kissed him goodbye.
"Be careful. I don't want to be a widow after only a few hours."
"I will. I love you."
"Love you too."
At the same time Phoebe was saying her good bye to Cole in much the same way.
"Ok you two. Enough mush can we get going here." Prue joked to her sisters
"Ok we're coming. Pipe we have to get her man." Phoeb laughed as he stood between her two sisters
"Don't I know it." Piper replied as she laughed and not quite fast enough to be out of the reach of Prues swat that was coming at her
Hitting her sisters playfully, "Oh you two. Come on." she reached for her sisters hands asn she looked down on the page before her
The three sisters held each other's hand and recited the spell to return them to another time.
'A bond that was not to be done,
Give us the power to see it undone,
And turn back time whence it was begun.'
They then disappeared in a sparkle of lights.
"So what do we do know?" Cole asked Leo
"We wait."
"And you get used to this how?" thinking he had just sent the woman he loves into the past. Not knowing what would happen.
"You just have to believe in them Cole. You of all people should be able to do that. How many times did you try and kill them and have them only to defeat you?"
"Ok you may have something there. But it's different now."
Leo put his hand on Cole's shoulder and laughed slightly, "That's why it's called love man." He turned and left the attic leaving a bewildered Cole.
"Come back to me Phoebe. I love you."
They re-materialized inside the attic that they had just left. Only it was different somehow.
"Ok so how do we find out if we are in the right time frame?" Piper asked
"Well we could stick our heads out in the hall and see what we hear." Prue suggested
"Ok then." Piper replied as she headed for the door, with her sister following her.
Prue turned to Phoebe who hadn't moved. She turned back to her sister, "Pheebs you ok?"
Piper then too turned around at the sound of the question that Prue just asked their sister.
"I'm just a bit. I don't know Prue."
Prue wrapped her arms around Phoebes shoulder. "What is it honey?"
"So much in one day. First Mum leaving and now, I have to relive that accident. I don't want to relive those memories Prue."
"Oh sweetie." She pulled Phoebe into a full hug. "I loved you then, and I love you know. We were young and stubborn then, or now. You now what I mean."
"Yeah it was just hard you know."
"Yeah sweetie I do. So lets go get this demon quickly so that neither one of us has to relive the past. Ok?"
"Ok."
They headed for the attic door, stopping momentarily for any sounds. They remembered as kids that the attic was out of bounds. Well in actual fact they could never get into it. The Manor was quiet, so they made there way downstairs. As they came to the bottom landing they almost ran right into Grams. Prue immediately stepped in front of here sisters out of sure instinct.
"Grams." Phoebe whispered
Turning suddenly at the sound of her name their Grams was ready to send someone or anything flying. Until she recognized her granddaughters.
"Oh my darlings what brings you here, again?" she asked as she pulled them into a hug
"Not good news I'm afraid Grams." Prue answered
"Oh, oh. Warlock or demon?"
"Demon." Piper said.
They all knew that they could not tell Grams what was going to happen. This is one of the hardest things about time traveling. Not being able to prevent a loved one from getting hurt or killed. They all remembered the last time they had used that same spell. Phoebe especially had almost changed history. But she realized at the last minute that things were suppose to be as they were.
Moving to the living room to more comfortable seats the four of them tried to figure out what was going on.
"Ok, so do you know who?"
"Nope just that he is after us as kids, while our powers are still bound." Prue told her
"We have to find him, vanquish him and return to our time. We have to let things here run their course." Piper added
"Yes, of course. You can not change history. You three know what will happen in your day to day life at this time. But you can not let your younger selves know."
"So Grams what is today's date?" Prue asked although afraid of the answer.
"Oct. 17, 1990."
The girls looked at each other knowing what that date was: One day before Prue and Phoebes accident.
Prue wrapped a protective arm over Phoebes shoulder but didn't say anything. Phoebe just responded by resting her head on Prue shoulder.
"Phoebe sweetie. Are you ok? You seem awfully quiet. I don't ever recall that with you." Grams asked.
"Yeah Grams I'm ok. I'm just going through a rough spot right now. But with Prue and Piper beside me I'll make it. Thanx though."
"You're welcome, and I'm glad that you three seemed to have gotten over your problems and are able to love each other with no strings." She said this as she recalled a fight that very morning that Prue and Phoebe had gotten into about a ride to Phoebes Basketball game. She had to finally intervene and tell Prue to take her. What is it with those two? They are too much alike I think. And both stubborn as a couple of mules.
"So where do we go from here?" Grams asked, "You don't know who it is that you are looking for."
"True. But we have an idea of where and when he will strike." Piper answered her Grams as she kept an eye on Phoebe with the corner of her eye.
"Grams what about your Whitelighter. Maybe he could help us out?" Prue suggested
"I can try and reach him. Or better yet maybe yours would be better suited for the job."
Piper shared a look with her two sisters. I wonder what my husband looked like eight years ago? She thought.
After Grams finished her sentence a wash of familiar blue light lit up the living room. Piper was just about to say something when she saw him.
"Girls, meet your Whitelighter; Tim."
The three looked stunned. Ok so how did Leo fit in the picture? They all thought.
"Penny how are you?"
"I'm good Tim but it would seem my granddaughters of tomorrow have a demon problem."
"I heard. They filled me in. Now you three know you can not change history in anyway. You three know what will happen in the next few days let alone further. You can not tell your younger selves, or your Grams, anything that happens to you. 'They' told me to tell you that if you do there will be consequences.
"We understand, Tim." Piper replied still wondering what happened to Leo
"Ok then. The demon as you know has come back from the future to kill you three in the past before you received your powers. He must do it at a most vulnerable point in your lives. So I'm assuming that that point is now or soon or you would be at different point in your life."
The girls just looked at each other. It was so hard to not being able to say anything, but they couldn't.
"Tim we know the date and we know by that that he will strike soon. That's all we're going to say." Prue told him.
"That's ok. At least we have a time line to work with. So the demon we are looking for is Plimsoul. He is very powerful and it will take the power of three to vanquish him."
"So upstairs to the BOS and lets see what we can find." Piper suggested as she stood up. She wanted to find this guy and vanquish his butt so she and her sisters could get home and she could go on her honeymoon. But she also did not want to relive that time of history again, it was hard enough the first time.
Grams stood and headed after her granddaughter. "BOS? She asked them
"Book of Shadows Grams." Phoebe explained, "It's just easier to say BOS."
"Oh." Penny understood as she followed her grand-daughters up the stairs.
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"Here he is. Plimsoul. Says pretty much what we already know." Grams said.
"So how do we get rid of him?" Piper asked
"We need the power of three and a potion." Penny replied as she scanned over the ingredient she would need
"Well the power of three we have. So now we just have to make up the potion." Prue added
"And then what? Do we wait for him to come after us, or them?" Phoebe put in.
"He won't appear until you are at your most vulnerable point. So whatever it was that happened will still occur. And at some point after that he will appear." Tim told them.
"Ok so how do we stay here and not have our younger selves get suspicious? I know that I for one would probably figure out that the three strangers in my house look an awful lot like us. Not to mention Tim." Prue said
"Well how about cousin. There are always family similarities in all families." Grams suggested
"Worth a try. But we can't use our names." Piper added
"Ok well come up with something each and then we wait." Grams said as she turned her head to the sound of the front door closing. "And I think you better make it quick. Prue and Piper just got home."